Hi everyone. I don't work in HTML very often at all, but I am working on a simple website presently and wanted to add a contact form, but our hosting is Windows, so php is not an option. So I was wondering if I was able to create a simple contact page in html. I've never attempted to do so before, and after searching online didn't find a way that this has been accomplished, so I wanted to ask on here.

So, what suggestions would those that are much more familiar with HTML than I have? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I would, at the very least, run it through some Javascript validation and mail it from there. Unless you're ok with the possibility of perpetual spam and allowing an e-mail address to be out in the open.

there's no excuse to rely on the client to handle forms in this day and age. write a mailing script in whatever language your host does support.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I have windows hosting, so I could write something in C# as an example (That's what I use for desktop development).

I guess my question though would be how to do that... I know it's broad, but I've never done anything like that. Would I create the UI in the HTML document and then on Send button click somehow use the C# code? I'm very intrigued by your post, but I honestly don't understand how this would be accomplished. Like I said, I very infrequently do web work, so while sending an e-mail is no problem on the desktop, I am unsure of how to do that through an HTML page.

Thanks everyone for your responses. I have windows hosting, so I could write something in C# as an example (That's what I use for desktop development).

I guess my question though would be how to do that... I know it's broad, but I've never done anything like that. Would I create the UI in the HTML document and then on Send button click somehow use the C# code? I'm very intrigued by your post, but I honestly don't understand how this would be accomplished. Like I said, I very infrequently do web work, so while sending an e-mail is no problem on the desktop, I am unsure of how to do that through an HTML page.

Thanks Again everyone for your help.

you'd do exactly the same as you would a PHP-based form. Have the HTML form POST to the server side script, and figure out how to read that POSTed data in the language of your choosing and process it from there.

you'd do exactly the same as you would a PHP-based form. Have the HTML form POST to the server side script, and figure out how to read that POSTed data in the language of your choosing and process it from there.

Thanks everyone for all of your help. I think I'm definitely on the right track (I actually wasn't aware of POST). I've never done anything like this before, just basic html pages...

Here's what I have. I found an online tool that generates this, which I thought was pretty handy.

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Which, O.K., that's no big deal, the post action is directing it to a file that's not there. But I've creating the cgi-bin directory, I've stuck the file in there, I've changed the path to another directory where I put the file. No matter what I do it can't find this file. So, I was wondering if anyone sees something that I'm missing... I figured this would work if the file was where it should be... ?